{"id":1722,"date":"2023-09-23T13:55:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T18:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:24:09","slug":"wxyz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2023\/09\/23\/wxyz\/","title":{"rendered":"WXYZ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Moths and reptiles, insects and birds seem to have no confusion.                         <br>With Ws and Zs                         <br>their chromosomes lead <br>to a simple, straightforward conclusion.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But oh no; the human species is different, can&#8217;t keep anything simple. <br>Some we call guy, <br>some we call gal, <br>so some get stuck in the middle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s in the translation of Xs and Ys, where things can get fouled up. <br>&#8216;Cuz every XY, <br>is labeled a guy, <br>but the labeling causes the rub. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when we label an XX a gal, again we&#8217;re looking for trouble.<br>Just skip the translation, <br>avoid the temptation, <br>saying girl can make it a puzzle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So label each washroom XX or XY, and you&#8217;ll know which one is for you.  <br>&#8216;Cuz if you&#8217;re confused  <br>on which one to use,  <br>your chromosomes give you a clue.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if you still choose to live as the other, that of course is fine.   <br>Just don&#8217;t neglect,   <br>to show due respect,   <br>on the other side of the line.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(The Random Poet:032624           <br>www.the randompoet.com) &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moths and reptiles, insects and birds seem to have no confusion. With Ws and Zs their chromosomes lead to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2023\/09\/23\/wxyz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WXYZ<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-observations","category-pre-nov-5-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}